Helen Black was a young girl that was one of the many victims of Arachnid that had been webbed up in Chicago’s sewer systems. Although all of these other people were dead, after Dragon had defeated Arachnid, he heard someone still breathing. Helen was released and developed an infatuation with Dragon from then on.

Many years later, Helen Black became the landlady of an apartment block where Gertie Funt lived. This woman was the best friend of Dragon’s wife Jennifer and had been obsessed with finding a method to cure her recently paralyzed friend Gertie’s research was plastered all over her apartment’s wall and was discovered by Dragon and Helen when he went to visit her in an effort to locate his missing wife.

It is later discovered that the shape-shifter Mutation, was Helen Black along with Gertie Funt. Helen searched out the Power Broker as she wanted to be closer to Dragon and though that having powers would be the way. The Power Broker merged them both into Mutation, which is later reverted by the touch of Negate.

Helen is later seen protesting for Dragon's freedom.Helen also spends a lot of time with Cecil Parasol, often times reinvigorating his faith in the Church of Savage Dragon which is later named the Brotherhood of the Fin.